ADVENT OF COLOUR

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 107, 16 April 1936, Page 7

ADVENT OF COLOUR

Anxiety In Motion Pictures. ITS EFFECT ON STARS. With the advent of colour in motion pictures', many of Hollywood's stars are experiencing anxious moments whilst they await the outcome of losits on their features and complexions.

j The .situation was brought about I when it was whispered that Walter | Wanger had tested several actors and I j'ctresses for Paramount's "The Trail i cl the Lonesome Pine" before he ! found those whose complexions would | "stand" colour photography, and that | seme actors lost roles in the picture | because (heir features, no matter how good to the eye. would not photograph in colour to good advantage. And colour photography apparently will be in gerr-r::! use in Hollywood before many months have passed! Screen makeup is used because photographic retouchers' cannot work en the thousands of tiny, frames that constitute motion picture .scenes. Thus, tli". malceun substitutes for the lPtouchers and eliminate any possible. flaws winch the camera—which is notoriously brutal to beauty—would i emphasise. However, makeup such as has been in the past cannot: be used in.eolour photography. JI&bBU :

In the Uv-f<; il. was foirjvflV'tlVtvt FUivift Sidney, who film, .fc'ocj nn ideal Wmif : exion' for 'colour photogrpp/hy efe did Fred Mac Murray, Henry Fonda, N?nel Bruce and Fred fJlone, her fellow players. The beauty of the outdoor scenes of Paramount's "The Trial of the Lonesome Pine," will remain a joy forever to nil theatregoers. The picture was filmed in the Big Bear moun" tains of California and the addition of magnificent colour ha." truly captured all the beauty of the ranges, the rivers, the valleys, the pines, and accentuated the beauty of Miss Sylvia Sidnev, the star of the picture.